Please take my hands, Judas (Stephen Adly Guirgis)

The synthesis of Love and Justice
can produce only Mercy and
Forgiveness, Your Honor!
 If a just God sits in Heaven,
it can fall no other way!

JESUS: I’m right here.
JUDAS: I would have never believed that you could have left me.
JESUS: I never left you.
JUDAS: That you didn’t love me.
JESUS: I do love you.
JUDAS: Why … didn’t you make me good enough … so that you could’ve loved me?
JESUS: … Please take my hands, Judas. Please.
JUDAS: Where are they?
JESUS: Right here.
JUDAS: I can’t see them.
JESUS: They’re right here.
JUDAS: Where are you going?!
JESUS: I’m right here.
JUDAS: Don’t leave me!
JESUS: I’m here.
JUDAS: I can’t hurt …
JESUS: I love you, Judas.
JUDAS: I can’t …
JESUS: Please stay.
JUDAS: I can’t hurt …
JESUS: Please love me, Judas. 

--Stephen Adly Guirgis,
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play

Image source: Christopher Williams, The Remorse of Judas (1911), https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-remorse-of-judas-153010
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